Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector

From the rear cover of this 347 page book: "'Museums have histories of their own, but little is known of the making of private collections.' And so Louisine W. Havermyer 'jotted down the interesting stories concerning the purchase of this picture or that object, to relate the rare remarks of the celebrated painters she met, to record the curious circumstances attending the purchase of some unusual work of art, to keep for the following generations, valuable information for art collectors.' And for all the readers interested in connoisseurship, nineteenth-century art, and the cultural education of America."